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Gold/Mining/Energy : Global Thermoelectric - SOFC Fuel cells (GLE:TSE)
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To: blue_chip who wrote (1142)4/20/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (2) of 6016
 
On the question of the SOFC's heat preventing it from automotive use, I can't see how that can be - insulation is hardly rocket science or expensive. My chariot is diesel-powered and the combustion chamber temperatures are higher than gle's SOFC.

Going back ninety years or so, there was a wide variety of technology being developed in the early motorcar. For power there was internal combustion, steam and electric - internal combustion won the market, but it seems to me that that victory came through popularisation by Ford and others - at some point they might have decided to put their development effort into steam instead and make a whizbang multiple-fuel safe dependable affordable steam turbine by 1925 or so ... if they had we would now know that as the standard and Rudolf Diesel's engine would now be consigned to museums.

Nobody has a fuel-cell-powered vehicle in mass production at this point.
Seems to me the field is somewhat open still ... Ballard is getting respect, though.
And in the last few days, so has Global ... we'll see how they execute.
Anyway, there's lots of markets beyond the automotive sector, in a couple of which gle seems to be doing fine already.
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